stockhorse
Britishnoun
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The eager stockhorse pricks his ears And lifts his head on high In wild excitement when he hears The Brumby mob go by.
From Saltbush Bill, J. P. by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
The cunning old stockhorse wheeled round or sprang aside, and the bull went blundering into empty space with two fourteen-foot stock-whips playing on his unlucky hide like rain.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
We took the bits out of their mouths, and let them pick feed round about, with the bridle under their feet, stockhorse fashion.
From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood
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